HeyJaredThe Crow's Nest
A personal perspective on writing and creativity and life from a writer who is mostly all at sea, trying to make it to land.
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Reflections on conversations with fellow writers (opens the original)
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Why did you stay? (opens the original)
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Hello subscribers old and new. I am ‘back’ after taking a month off my regular weekly paid posts and raring to go (well, sort of). I was going to restart with a jolly writing post - no more Sadstacks for me - I thought, but was scrolling notes on here and saw one that made me pause for a moment. It is suicide prevention month, and the author of the note was asking people to respond with the reasons they stayed, with the intention of compiling them as a source of hope for others (of course, I can
Highs, lows, and everything in between (opens the original)
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Thank f**k for books (opens the original)
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When you can’t write about your life on a Substack about your life, what can you write about?As I said in a note on here recently, I’m going through some stuff. It’s stuff that’s probably best kept for therapy, so for the moment I am keeping it off the page, but given it has practically taken over my life it means I’m struggling to write about anything else. But I can at least write about the books that are saving me right now and for that reason, I am going to suspend my paid subscriptions for
The Right Way To Live? (opens the original)
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